Quivering Juncker BEGS Putin to open talks over EU’s ‘troubled’ relationship with Russia

Quivering Juncker BEGS Putin to open talks over EU’s ‘troubled’ relationship with Russia

PANICKED European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has launched a desperate bid to improve the EU’s relationship with Russia after describing the current relations as “troubled and marked by mistrust”.

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Juncker and Putin have both been at the International Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg

He said: “We must not only talk about Russia, also talk with Russia — its leadership, its people.

“If our relationship today is troubled and marked by mistrust, it is not broken beyond repair.

“We need to mend it, and I believe we can.”

But Juncker’s worries over the EU’s Relationship with Russia are unlikely to be resolved unless Vladimir Putin’s government agrees to the Minsk agreement – which sets out the terms designed to settle the unrest in Eastern Ukraine.

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Russia must agre to the Minsk agreement designed to sort out the unrest in Ukraine

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Juncker said in his speech that the EU is united over the Minsk agreement

The Eurocrat’s hopeful vision for a more united front between Moscow and Brussels was also set out in his speech.

The desperate Commission President spoke of his want for “a vast region governed by the rule of law, trading freely and working together on common projects”.

But he also stressed Russia’s need to adhere to the terms of the Minsk agreement.